Newspapers road/air delivery to Ulster
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PUBLISHERS of national newspapers printed
in Manchester last week inaugurated a joint road-air-road delivery service to Ulster which brings them into direct competition with the Northern Ireland newspapers for breakfast-time sales.
The Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and Sporting Chronicle now dispatch their Northern Ireland editions, which are printed in the late evening, by their own transport to Liverpool (Speke) airport. From this point they are forwarded by two specially chartered Cambrian Airways Viscounts which are scheduled to arrive at Aldergrove airport, 15 miles from Belfast, at 2 a.m.
Here they are taken over by the Northern Ireland wholesalers, Eason and Son (Belfast:
Ltd., and C. Porter and Co. Ltd.. the parcels being transhipped to the wholesalers' own delivery vehicles which may also carry other newspapers.
A network of nearly 1,500 miles of Northern Ireland roads is then covered by the joint fleet.